This week we’re revealing our favourite products from last year in our annual awards, looking back at the essential photography kit that helped to define 2013.

The Compact Camera of the Year 2013 award goes to the Fujifilm X20.

“...the Fujifilm X20 delivers such a winning combination of old and new that offers so many important improvements over the original model that we can heartily recommend it for new and X10 users alike.”

The Sony RX100 remains a 2012 camera even if you purchased it new in 2013, therefore it is ineligible for the best of 2013 award.

Generally it's not a great idea to make image quality claims about raw capable cameras based on jpegs. Jpeg quality claims are a different matter.

The fact that the Fuji's zoom is so much faster when fully zoomed out is a big deal, and would be a significant reason to buy the Fuji over the Sony RX100 or RX100II. Though I bet the Sonys do better video.

Well, I imagine that you have raws from the Fuji X20, so if you feel like trying out either the latest CaptureOne or PhotoNinja, they'd both free to try for at least a couple of weeks. So it's just download and install time, and PhotoNinja takes an activation code.

PhotoNinja in fact remains active after the trial period ends, but there's no more saving/exporting. (No I don't work for PictureCode.)

Anyhow yes, when the lens is wide open, the Sony RX100 is an excellent camera.

yep!
people were talking about IQ of RX100 over x20 should know IQ isn't everything. x20 has OVF! for getting composition in the way of art of photography so don't even think of getting a CAMERA without OVF. i cant do that.